Rabbitfish

Rabbitfishes, belonging to the Siganidae family, consist of 29 species in the genus Siganus, with some having face stripes colloquially known as foxfaces. Native to the Indo-Pacific, they are found from the Red Sea and eastern Africa to the Pacific Ocean, and some, like S. luridus and S. rivulatus, have invaded the eastern Mediterranean through Lessepsian migration. Rabbitfishes are commercially important as food fish, inhabiting inshore tropical and subtropical waters, including reefs, lagoons, mangroves, and seagrass beds.